Telegraph stories affected by EU 'right to be forgotten'

EU ruling demands Google removes links to content deemed 'inadequate,
irrelevant or no longer relevant' following complaint from anyone named in
it. Here we will maintain an up-to-date list of Telegraph content which has
been removed from search results

Google should be thought of as part of the press, and given protection not for its own sake, but for oursPhoto: REUTERS

The European Court of Justice ruled in May that Google must remove links to any content that is "inadequate, irrelevant or no longer relevant” or face a fine. The content itself is not deleted, but Google will not list it in search results. A leading solicitor warns that this could “stifle free speech”.

Users searching for the related topic on google.co.uk will see a message that says: “Some results may have been removed under data protection law in Europe” at the bottom of the page. However, those visiting the American site google.com will be unaffected, even if they reside in the UK.

Over 250,000 requests have been made in total to the search engine asking for links to information be removed from Google's European site branches. While Google does not disclose the identity of the complainant, applications must supply identity verification to prove the links relate either to themselves, or that they have the legal authority to act on the claimant’s behalf.

In July the House of Lords's EU Committee published a report claiming that the EU's Right to be Forgotten is “unworkable and wrong”, and that it is based on out-dated principles.

“We do not believe that individuals should have a right to have links to accurate and lawfully available information about them removed, simply because they do not like what is said,” it said.

A second article, entitled The vice queen of Windsor, detailing MacDonald's arrest and the allegations made against her, has also had its link removed.

• An article from 2008 about a former Harrow pupil, Alex Fiallos, who returned to his halls of residence after a night out drinking and drove his £4,000 car around the grounds at speeds of 30mph before crashing. He eventually collided with a set of steps in a scene reminiscent of the 1969 cult classic movie starring Michael Caine. His parents had given him the silver Mini just the day before.

• Two stories from 2010 relating to football referee Dougie McDonald coming under scrutiny for a penalty decision in a Celtic v Dundee United match, and subsequently resigning. Both links were subsequently reinstated by Google.

• Four images - which are actually two unique images, each hosted twice as separate copies on the Telegraph website - relating to Max Mosley's 2008 sex scandal. (First image, second image)

• Two 2001 stories reporting that three men had appeared in court after being arrested when explosives were found in a Dublin apartment. The three men had been seen looking at something in a car, then refused to stop when police later attempted to pull them over. Inside the car were balaclavas and plastic boxes with switches attached to them, which “could be used as incendiary devices”. Follow-up searches of a number of homes found explosives and similar equipment to that found in the car.

• The link to an article from 2001 about a newspaper sales director who “terrorised” a shopkeeper and his wife in an incident before a football game was removed after Google received a request under the EU’s “right to be forgotten”. Patrick McVeigh, who was 30 at the time and earning more than £40,000 a year at Yorkshire Post newspapers, was heading for a football game at Leeds United with his brother Terence and a group of friends when he stopped to steal beer from a newsagent. His brother was also seen removing a security camera.

• An article from 2000 detailing the jailing of a butcherwho threatened to send his estranged wife's wealthy parents videos of her participating in group sex, which he filmed. Julian St Quinton was sentenced to two and a half years imprisonment for blackmail and nine months for indecent assault.

• A 17 year-old being issued with a three-year Asbo for being held responsible for almost 40 per cent of the crime in a single town. Kyle Ivison, aged 17 at the time, was held responsible for a crimewave of more than 120 offences in the town of Clitheroe, Lancs.

• A woman claimed gynaecologist Darwish Hasan Darwish raped her after putting her in a 'deep hypnotic state', causing her to become pregnant with his daughter. Darwish, who was already serving a six-year sentence for indecently assaulting 10 other patients, was acquitted of rape during a court case in 2001.

• Three young men 'from respectable families' were cleared of plotting to rape a Cambridge University graduate in 2001. Links to an earlier article in which one of the accused, Andrew Udenze, said the student 'agreed to have sex' minutes after getting into a car with him and four other strangers have also been taken down.

• A former advertising executive with Saatchi & Saatchi who left his family for a younger colleague was jailed for six months in 2000. After the younger woman left him, he was arrested and charged with harassment over bombarding her with phone calls, e-mails and letters.

• A hotel manager hid £58,000 in stolen cash taken from her employers and recently married couples in bags and boxes under her bed, Newcastle Crown Court heard in 2002. She was jailed for nine months.

• "Absolute English gent" Hugh Taylor undertook a legal fight against Theresa Hamer over the return of some paving stones from a property Mr Taylor bought from Mrs Hamer for £3.5 million in 2002. Mrs Hamer removed the paving from a 282 square yard piazza on the property when she moved out, prompting Mr Taylor to appeal for the return of the "irreplaceable" stones.

• A 2004 article about the disappearance of 16 year-old Charlotte Pinkney from Ilfracombe, Devon. The teenager's body was never found, and scaffolder Nick Rose was found guilty of her murder and jailed for life the following year.

• A company director killed himself while on Skype to his partner in 2011. Adrian Rowland was on a business assignment in India when he cut his own throat on camera while talking with his distraught partner in the UK.

• An article detailing how an RAF pilot was accused of sexually assaulting a female junior officer after creeping into her bedroom following a champagne party, a court martial heard in 2005. The link to a second article following his unanimous acquittal a week later has also been removed.

• Secretary Laura Cook kicked a fellow train passenger in the face with her stiletto following an argument. Ian Garven was attacked by Ms Cook and her boyfriend Nicholas Rogers after he asked Rogers to take his feet off the train seat. The pair were ordered to complete 80 hours' unpaid work, pay £200 compensation and £250 prosecution costs in 2008.

• Celebrities were apparently reluctant to be seen with party organiser Nicholas Meikle, who was implicated in the alleged gang rape of a young woman by a group of men including Premiership footballers in 2003. Meikle was later cleared of any criminal wrongdoing.

• The boyfriend of Art Malik's daughter was found dead in a swimming pool at the actor's home in 2002.

• Mark Bruton-Young, 36, an architect, allegedly murdered his daughter, Harriet, after he resented the intrusion of the “unplanned” baby into his married life, Bristol Crown Court heard in 2011. He was later cleared.

• A Brazilian woman who claimed she lost her unborn twins in a knife attack by neo-Nazis was not pregnant and probably carved the initials of Switzerland's main right-wing party into her own skin, Swiss investigators said in 2009.

• A Spanish court ordered an investigation into allegations that Saudi billionaire prince Alwaleed bin Talal raped a model on a yacht in Ibiza in 2008 be temporarily halted in 2012.

• A head teacher of a sixth form college in Somerset wrote to students in 2010 asking them to support a member of staff who was preparing for a sex change.

• Selina Hakki was convicted of using rohypnol to drug wealthy-appearing men in order to rob them in 2004. She was sentenced to five years.

• An Oxford graduate who was among seven British tourists killed in a Nepal plane crash had been taking a final break before starting as an associate at a top City law firm in 2012.

• A sinister message was left on the mobile phone of a wealthy company director days after he was found shot dead in an orchard, an inquest heard in 2008.